Following up on my previous post, I decided to attempt the same analysis in PostgreSQL. The analysis doesn’t make use of any spatial logic itself (yet), but I consider this a PostGIS post because it is using PostGIS geometries. In the past, I have noticed that BigQuery SQL is very reminiscent of that of PostgreSQL,…
Tag: PostgreSQL
Attribute Transfer in PostGIS Using Spatial SQL
Data conflation is a meat-and-potatoes task in most GIS workflows. There are numerous reasons one might need to get data from one data set into another. Perhaps you want to attach a new geometry type to existing attributes or a table. Or maybe you need to pull attributes from one or more data sets into…
Working with Materialized Views in PostGIS
It’s been a few months since I’ve posted, owing mainly to getting my feet under me at Spatial Networks. About a month after I started, the company re-merged with Fulcrum, which had previously been spun off as a separate company. As a result, I’ve gotten to know the Fulcrum engineering team and have gotten to…
Revisiting Two Old Friends: ArcGIS and PostGIS
Back in the dark old days of ArcSDE, when it first started to support PostgreSQL/PostGIS as a back-end data store, I did a series of posts about how to work with it. Of course, working with PostGIS in ArcGIS was a theme of the early days of this blog, through my association with zigGIS. Although it’s…
Building a Simple Geodata Service With Node, PostGIS, and Amazon RDS
tl;dr This post describes the construction of a simple, lightweight geospatial data service using Node.JS, PostGIS and Amazon RDS. It is somewhat lengthy and includes a number of code snippets. The post is primarily targeted at users who may be interested in alternative strategies for publishing geospatial data but may not be familiar with the…